CLASSICS 2D03 Lecture 17: 17- The Afterlife in Epic
17 Sep 2016
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Varied views of the afterlife: no firm sense of it. Mystery cults: dionysos, eleusis, orpheus try to explain what lies beyond but understand little of these cults since they"re mystery cults. Underworld in odyssey homer = early greek writer, 6-8th century bc. To him alone has persephone left his understanding even in death, but the other ghosts flit about aimlessly. Tyieresias is a special shade that has sense/visions of the future mind is in tact despite being dead. Odysseus must take his shape, travel to the ends of the world mean past the. Here perimedes and eurylochus held the victims, while i drew my sword and dug the trench a cubit each way. More what he does when he gets where he"s going that" important for getting to the underworld. Land of the cimmerians = magical place, edge of the world, mysterious.
